17 Jun
2026
17 Jun
'26
7:49 a.m.
On 6/16/2026 10:59 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, 2026-06-16 at 21:39 -0400, Ken Seefried via
cctalk wrote:
I came on the scene of a Honeywell to Univac-1100 migration 46 years
ago. Mostly COBOL a little Fortran and a tiny bit of other silly
stuff. Not only was there no thought of converting the COBOL to Ada
at the time but the last time I checked they are still running some
of the COBOL I wrote when I was there.
bill
"we have the magic beans that will translate
your COBOL
code into <new hot language du jour> so your business logic will
totally
without fail port over (pinky swear) and you don't have to pay for
those
smelly old mainframe coders but only fresh young (cheap) newbies"
Honeywell provided a COBOL to Ada translator more than forty years ago.
I don't know whether anybody actually used it.